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Old 03-05-2013, 07:20 PM
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Originally Posted by carbking View Post
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As to the feed versus slot discussion: sometimes engineers are asked to resign a product so that the product will still work although less reliably at a lower initial cost. In the manufacture of a carburetor bowl, much less expensive to cast in a slot rather than machine a seat, a hole, and a cross passage after the casting step. Jon.
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